MY BEST FRIEND IS A SECRET AGENT: How Chip Became C.H.I.P. and Foiled the Freaky Fuzzy Invasion
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10-year-old Nort McKrakken is a pint-sized computer...
Max Schleimer was the power-mad architect guy who wanted to turn the whole city upside down. My dad had destroyed half the city trying to catch him, and now Schleimer had used his architect skills to sneak out of the toughest prison in the city. Apparently he took apart the whole prison and rebuilt it upside down without anybody noticing – until he escaped and it was too late.
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This guy really had "upside down" on the brain.
"We destroy half the city trying to catch him, and they just let him go!" By "they," my dad meant the guys who ran the prison. Dad didn't think "they" were tough enough. Anyway, "they" just made his job twice as hard because he'd been hired to do the security for this big Freaky Fuzzy Con on the weekend, and now the biggest threat to the whole thing would be Max Schleimer!
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What I didn't tell my dad was that for me and Chip, this was perfect. Now we could try out C.H.I.P.'s new programming! Max Schleimer was toast! We were going to stop him in his tracks before he could turn the Freaky Fuzzy Con upside down – literally. This was our chance!
Not that I cared about the Freaky Fuzzy convention - I just wanted a place for C.H.I.P. to do his new stuff - but my sister was dying to go to the convention. Not only were there going to be Freaky Fuzzy fans from everywhere buying and selling vintage Freaky Fuzzies, but the main presentation was going to be a big unveiling of the new Freaky Fuzzy toys. They were supposed to have tons of new features, making them almost real, and the reclusive owner of the company was going to do the big rollout.
That's right, Seth Mindwarp himself!
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Stella stopped eating her Kelp Krispies in mid-chew and yelled, "It's on TV!" It was the new Freaky Fuzzy commercial. There was Seth Mindwarp demonstrating Freaky Fuzzies 2.0. Stella thought they looked incredible, but I just thought they looked even creepier than the originals.
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They were almost too real. Not only could they understand speech commands, they could even read facial expressions. And they had 147 facial expressions of their own! They could also walk up and down stairs, sing you to sleep and even answer your phone.
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Okay, they were cool technology, but they were still just toys. Or were they? I mean, with all those new features, they had to be able to do other things. But what? I couldn't figure it out. All I knew was that if I were some kind of tech genius like Seth Mindwarp, I'd do something more than just make annoying little toys.
Anyway, the big Freaky Fuzzy 2.0 unveiling was going to go off without a hitch – not thanks to my dad but thanks to me... and C.H.I.P.!
